He gave no fixed address when he turned up to court but had lived in Cedar Road, Castle Gresley.

He attended Southern Derbyshire Magistrates' Court to admit driving while banned and without insurance.

Bird has been jailed for 16 weeks because magistrates were told this was his seventh conviction for driving while banned and he was driving in a public place with disregard for his disqualification.

Mitchell Bird has been caught driving while banned for the seventh time (Image: Staffordshire Police)

He was also ordered to pay £85 court costs and a £115 victim surcharge.

Bird has also been banned from driving for 18 months and will not be able to legally drive until he passes an extended test of competence.

The Burton Mail reported on Bird's last offence when he was spotted driving in Meadow View Road, Newhall, on July 8 last year while banned and without insurance. He was also caught in High Street, Newhall, on July 18, 2017.

For this offence Bird was jailed for a total of 26 weeks because he had shown a 'wilful disregard' of previous court orders and had just been released from prison for the same offence, magistrates decided.

He was also ordered to pay a £115 victim surcharge and was banned from driving, again, for 36 months.

The Burton Mail had also previously reported that Bird was spotted in Newhall on May 4, last year, just weeks after he had been released from prison for a similar offence, which he had committed in October, 2016, and had been jailed for 26 weeks and banned from the roads for 36 months.